This exhibition at the National Gallery is a blockbuster and yes, many of the artists are big-hitters, names familiar to many of us.
What’s interesting here though is the number of paintings from private collections. I was impressed to find so many pieces had been loaned from anonymous owners so here are a few paintings you wouldn’t normally get the chance to see.
Look at the subtlety of whites in the Toulouse-Lautrec above.
And this Gauguin really shows how he was influenced by the Japanese prints he collected.
Derain‘s Dance is a huge painting and overwhelmingly exuberant.
The first portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer is the famous gold painting, the subject of the film “The Woman in Gold” .
This Signac is almost hallucinogenic in its colouring.
The Degas below combines monotype and pastel, an experimental combination rarely seen.
